On to the interior pics of Holland. By the way Holland is a part of The Netherlands, but all of the Netherlands are not Holland. This is one of the most picturesque places I have ever been to. it's just beautiful. And clean too. I hardly ever saw any trash anywhere. Super squared away folks too. Everything is very well organized.

Just a country scene..

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This is an area known as "Waterland" it is the first reclaimed land in Holland. How they did this was build dykes around watery areas that they wanted to reclaim and then build "watermills" to pump the water out and into canals that were higher than the bottom of the lake was. An early watermill could only pump up 1.5m of water due to the design and the Archimedes screw that they used. The Archimedes screws they used were made of wood planks and must have taken some serious carpentry skills. The watermills themselves must have taken some serious carpentry skills...

These little ditches at the bottom of the reclaimed land route the water towards the watermills to get picked up and pumped out. The Dutch call them "Ditches." I kid you not.

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Various assorted beautiful watermills...

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If you had areas that were over 1.5m deep you had to use more than one watermill...

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The shaft transferring power from vertical to the 45 degree Archimedes screw...

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Looking up at the main shaft...

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The Archimedes screw that they used...

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